My Ed(1) Toolbox
a day ago
- #text-editor
- #unix
- #ed
- The author is a big fan of ed(1), using it for Git, sudo editing, and static site generation.
- GNU ed is the standard, battle-tested, and scriptable, with red(1) as its restricted version.
- OpenBSD ed (oed) is used for better POSIX compliance and portability.
- wed is a modern, user-friendly ed variant with scripting support.
- aed is an interactive, user-friendly version of ed with Readline and syntax highlighting.
- xed is a script for simplifying ed scripting, making it more like sed.
- The author criticizes ex(1) for being too vi-oriented and incompatible with ed.
- The author has implemented ed in Brainfuck, BASIC, and Modal as experimental projects.
- The post encourages using ed(1) in any form, praising its simplicity and power.